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nervy
Synonyms and Antonyms of nervy
1
displaying or marked by rude boldness
arch, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassbound, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, cheeky, cocksure, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, sassy, saucy, wise
2
inclined or willing to take risks
brash, daredevil, foolhardy, heedless, hotheaded, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, madcap, overbold, overconfident, rash, reckless, thoughtless, wild
brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, gallant, greathearted, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, swashbuckling, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous
gritty, plucky, spirited, spunky
gadarene, hasty, headlong, precipitate
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, crazy, foolish, half-witted, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, nutty, scatterbrained, silly, wacky (also whacky), witless
chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, craven, lily-livered, milk-livered, milky, poltroon, pusillanimous, shy, timid, timorous
careful, cautious, heedful, prudent, wary
affrighted, afraid, alarmed, fainthearted, fearful, frightened, horrified, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized
calm, cool, levelheaded, rational, reasonable, sage, sane, sensible, sound, wise
3
feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty
aggrieved, bothered, concerned, disquieted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, freaked, freaked-out, shook-up
apprehensive, foreboding, hesitant, misgiving
fretful, fretting, stewing, vexed
flustered, twittered, undone, unnerved, unstrung
obsessed, preoccupied, restless
fidgety, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hypertense, skittish, spooky
keyed up, on edge, on pins and needles, on tenterhooks
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